Sat, 18 Jun 2005

Birds in the garden // at 23:59

“Hey, what's that?” was the cry at breakfast. A pair of Black-faced cuckoo-shrikes (Coracina novaehollandiae) were flying about the garden, from the washing line to the gum tree to the apricot and back. Ok, it must be about time that I wrote down all the birds we've seen in — or above — our garden. The following table is from the Monash city council, I've added in a column for our house!

Bird species. An asterisk (*) denotes an exotic species.

Common Name Scientific Name Mill road!      
White-faced Heron        
Brown Goshawk     
Dusky Moorhen     
Australian Wood Duck     
Pacific Black Duck     
Chestnut Teal     
Blue-billed Duck        
Latham's Snipe        
Masked Lapwing        
Black-fronted Dotterel        
Common Bronzewing        
Crested Pigeon        
*Spotted Turtle-Dove +      
*Rock Dove +      
Rainbow Lorikeet +      
Musk Lorikeet        
Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo        
Galah        
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo +      
Eastern Rosella        
Crimson Rosella        
Red-rumped Parrot        
Laughing Kookaburra        
Powerful Owl        
Tawny Frogmouth        
Fan-tailed Cuckoo        
Red Wattlebird +      
Little Wattlebird        
Noisy Miner +      
Bell Miner        
White-plumed Honeyeater +      
Eastern Spinebill        
Brown Thornbill        
Striated Thornbill        
Striated Pardalote        
Spotted Pardalote        
Silvereye        
White-browed Scrub-wren        
Superb Fairy-wren        
Magpie-lark        
Grey Fantail        
Willie Wagtail        
Eastern Yellow Robin        
Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike +      
Mistletoebird        
Welcome Swallow        
Australian Magpie +      
Grey Butcherbird +      
Red-browed Finch        
Pied Currawong        
Grey Currawong        
Australian Raven +      
Little Raven        
*Common Blackbird +      
*Song Thrush        
*Common Myna +      
*Common Starling +      
*House Sparrow +      
*Eurasian Tree Sparrow        

Seems that we've seen birds here that the Monash City Council doesn't list, below are the rest of the ones we've seen either in the garden or flying overhead:

Common Name Scientific Name Mill road!
Long-billed Corella +
Peregrine Falcon +
Silver gull +
Australian Pelican +

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